Nerja
Nerja is a seaside resort on the Costa del Sol, in the region of Andalucia of Spain. It is one of the few resort towns on Costa del Sol that isn't dominated by large ugly concrete hotels.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Kallerna, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Town with 19,400 residents
- Description: municipality and town in Andalusia, Spain
- Also known as: “29075”
- Neighbors: Almuñécar, Frigiliana, and Torrox
Places of Interest
Highlights include Cueva de Nerja and Plaza Cantarero, Nerja.
Cueva de Nerja
Cave
Photo: Fernando, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Caves of Nerja are a series of caverns close to the town of Nerja in the Province of Málaga, Spain. Stretching for almost 5 kilometres, the caverns are one of Spain's major tourist attractions. Cueva de Nerja is situated 3½ km northeast of Nerja.
Plaza Cantarero, Nerja
Square
Photo: Haydn Blackey, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Plaza Cantarero, Nerja is a square.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Frigiliana and Maro.
Frigiliana
Photo: Pedro J Pacheco, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Frigiliana is a mountain town in Andalucia, Spain. A white Andalucian village only 5 miles inland, the village itself is a labyrinth of charming narrow whitewashed streets with old Andalucian houses.
Maro
Hamlet
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Nerja is a seaside resort on the Costa del Sol, in the region of Andalucia of Spain. It is one of the few resort towns on Costa del Sol that isn't dominated by large ugly concrete hotels. Maro is situated 3½ km east of Nerja.
Nerja
- Categories: municipality of Spain and locality
- Location: Axarquía, Málaga, Andalusia, Spain, Iberia, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
36.7469° or 36° 44′ 49″ northLongitude
-3.879° or 3° 52′ 45″ westPopulation
19,400Elevation
174 metres (571 feet)Open location code
8C8RP4WC+P9OpenStreetMap ID
node 1470838606OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
6359480Wikidata ID
Q13149
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Waray—“Nerja” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Nerja”
- Arabic: “نرخة”
- Arabic: “نِرخة”
- Arabic: “نيرخا”
- Aragonese: “Nerja”
- Armenian: “Ներխա”
- Asturian: “Nerja”
- Basque: “Nerja”
- Belarusian: “Нерха”
- Breton: “Nerja”
- Bulgarian: “Нерха”
- Catalan: “Nerja”
- Cebuano: “Nerja”
- Chechen: “Нерха (Испани)”
- Chechen: “Нерха”
- Chinese: “Nerja”
- Chinese: “内尔哈”
- Czech: “Nerja”
- Danish: “Nerja”
- Dutch: “Nerja”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نيرخا”
- Esperanto: “Nerja”
- Finnish: “Nerja”
- French: “Nerja”
- Galician: “Nerja”
- Georgian: “ნერხა (ესპანეთი)”
- Georgian: “ნერხა”
- German: “Nerja”
- Haitian: “Nerja”
- Hungarian: “Nerja”
- Interlingua: “Nerja”
- Interlingue: “Nerja”
- Irish: “Nerja”
- Italian: “Nerja”
- Japanese: “ネルハ”
- Kazakh: “Нерха”
- Kongo: “Nerja”
- Korean: “네르하”
- Ladin: “Nerja”
- Lithuanian: “Nercha”
- Lombard: “Nerja”
- Luxembourgish: “Nerja”
- Malagasy: “Nerja”
- Malay: “Nerja”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Nerja”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Nerja”
- Norwegian: “Nerja”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Nerja”
- Persian: “نرجا”
- Polish: “Nerja”
- Portuguese: “Nerja”
- Romanian: “Nerja”
- Russian: “Нерха”
- Serbian: “Нерха”
- South Azerbaijani: “نرجا”
- Spanish: “Nerja”
- Swedish: “Nerja”
- Tatar: “Нерха (Испания)”
- Tatar: “Нерха”
- Turkish: “Nerja”
- Ukrainian: “Нерха”
- Uzbek: “Nerja”
- Venetian: “Nerja”
- Vietnamese: “Nerja”
- Waray (Philippines): “Nerja”
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